Communication Skills Domain

Communication Skills Domains

Communication is the activity of conveying information through the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, visuals, signals, writing, or behavior. IThe first type is cross-culture communication which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”. The essence of effective cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing the right responses than  sending the “right” messages.

Cross-Cultural communication is a field that looks at how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves and how they endeavor to communicate across cultures.

Effective cross-cultural communication  can be achieved by-

A. Provide cultural training

                -about other cultures

                - and about our own culture

B. Provide language training

C. Increase flexibility and cooperation

E. Focus on individual attitudes and skill building.

The second type is ENTERTAINMENT AND COMMUNICATION

“Entertainment is an action, event or activity that aims to entertain, amuse and interest a public.”

COMMUNICATION IS IMPORTANT because it facilitates

l  Expressing emotions

l  For Educational purpose

l  Building relationships

l  Entertainment

l  Decision making

“COMMUNICATION is a basic need of people where as ENTERTAINMENT is a desire of people.”

Todays sources of entertainment would include, latest electronics gadgets  like Mobile and laptops  and cinema.

Web Freedom

We guys had read an article in Times Of India few days back and we planned to talk about the same in our video.

As we all know with the coming up of the newly formed IT act, we had a few incidences like a girl from Maharashtra getting arrested for liking a comment on Facebook, and few tweets and twitter accounts getting deleted under the act, the internet\web freedom is declining. People these days think twice and express their views differently over the web in fear that such incident does not take place with them over any sensitive topics.

In a report on the state of internet in 60 countries, Freedom House, a US-based organization, said that in 2013 India saw the "most significant year-on-year decline" in terms of web freedom.

The report said that the internet in India was "partially free". This is the same status that India has in 2012. But the country's score is now 47 points (higher means more censorship) in 2013 compared to 39 in 2012. The 8-point fall is the steepest Freedom House found among all 60 countries that the grup surveyed. Freedom House said it recorded 5-point fall in Brazil, Venezuella and the US.

Despite mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a former contractor for National Security Agency in the US, Freedom House calls the web in the country "free".

The Freedom House report said that in 2013 India "suffered from deliberate interruptions of mobile and internet service to limit unrest, excessive blocks on content during rioting in northeastern states, and an uptick in the filing of criminal charges against ordinary users for posts of social media sites".

In 2013, India's commitment to the web freedom has not only been worse than developed countries but has also been inferior to countries like Malawi, Tunisia and Mexico.

In the case of India, Freedom House particularly singles out Central Monitoring System, which Indian government is putting in place to regulate and monitor the web usage within the country. "Surveillance (under CMS) requires no judicial oversight. While some of this activity might be justifiable, the lack of transparency surrounding the system, which was never reviewed by Parliament, is concerning," it notes in the report. "The system's potential for abuse is also disquieting, as is its inadequate legal framework.

The report cites the case of the girl who was arrested for liking a Facebook post in Maharashtra, blocking of some Twitter accounts belonging to Indian users, overly broad court directives that have resulted in blocking of websites and a general lack of transparency in how Indian government blocks or filters content reach a conclusion that Indians now have less freedom on how they use the web.

Sunil Abraham, director at Bangalore-based Center for Internet and Society, says that Freedom House reports are not very accurate because they don't factor in censorship by copyright holders. But he agreed with its basic premise that in India conditions for web users are getting more difficult.

"The report is absolutely right in pointing out that censorship and surveillance in India is increasing. Despite protests from many quarters, it is a real pity that the government is not taking steps to amend the IT act and has joined other nation states in the global race to the bottom of the internet freedom," said Abraham.

Anja Kovacs, founder of Delhi-based Internet Democracy Project, agrees. "I have some issues with Freedom House reports due to how they are prepared and their methodologies. But yes I can say that last year has been very eventful and difficult," said. "But at the same time, there has also been a lot of push back from web users and activists. There have been conversations around the issue of web censorship, which is good."

Globally, the web surveillance is on the rise. "Broad surveillance, new laws controlling web content, and growing arrests of social-media users drove a worldwide decline in internet freedom in the past year," noted Freedom House.

Overall, 34 out of 60 countries part of the report saw a decline in the web freedom. "Vietnam and Ethiopia continued on a worsening cycle of repression; Venezuela stepped up censorship during presidential elections; and three democracies—India, the United States, and Brazil—saw troubling declines," noted the report.

Iceland and Estonia topped the list of countries with the greatest degree of internet freedom. China, Cuba, and Iran were found to be the most repressive countries.

The part in red was covered by me in the video.

- Gautam S. Prakash, 7CSE4(X), A2305210220

Women Empowerment

The empowerment process has already begun. We are now witnessing a steady improvement in the enrollment of women in schools, colleges and even in profession institutes. Their health is better as compared to earlier decades. In this decade, women are entering into the job market in increasing numbers. They are showing their skills even in non-traditional sectors like police, defence, administration, media and research fields. Twenty-six laws have been enacted so far to protect women from various crimes. The recent law on the 'protection of women against domestic violence' satisfies the long pending demand of the women activities. In the political field, the reservation for women is a significant step forward towards their political empowerment. When thirty-three percent reservation for women in Parliament becomes a reality, women's voice will be heard in the highest forum of democracy. The day, women of India will reach zenith in their empowerment.

Some qualities to be acquired by women to become truly empowered are awareness about risk prevailing at home, in work place, in traveling and staying outside home. They should have political, legal, economic and health awareness. They should have knowledge about support groups and positive attitudes towards life. They should get goals for future and strive to achieve them with courage. The best gift parents today can give to their daughters is education. If women choose to be ignorant then all the efforts taken by the Government and women activists will go in vain. Even in twenty-fifth century, they will remain backward and will be paying a heavy price for their dependence. So, it is a wake-up call for women to awake from their deep slumber and understand the true meaning of their empowerment. In the end I would like to conclude with the following words, "Women as the motherhood of the nation should be strong, aware and alert".

Debate

A debate is an organized clash of good ideas. Each side employs worthwhile evidence to promote their viewpoint and to rebut the "flawed" evidence advanced by the other side. Debating is a formal intellectual contest and there are endless ways it can be played. However, a good debate is like a tennis match where each side, following the rules set down, bats ideas back and forth to defeat the other team. As in any other subjective sport, debaters have to persuade the judges that they have won. Yet, debating can be an exciting even dangerous activity because emotions often run high.

VERBAL PRESENTATION Matte are often described as comprising “what you say”

There two main components are clarity and humor

Clarity is by far the most important element of verbal presentation. For many public speakers, ‘clarity’ refers to the way that they enunciate their words. That, however, is not the point here – we should be far more concerned with the actual words used to enunciate ideas.

Humor in verbal representation is a double-edged sword. If used effectively, it can significantly improve your connection with an audience; if used poorly, it can distract, confuse and reduce your credibility.

--Suveshi Sharma

Vocal presentation concerns the way that you enunciate and deliver your words to the audience. It is an integral part of a debate. It is responsible for a successful and effective delivery of a debate. There are various factors that influence the success of a debate. These factors are speed, volume and variation.

Speed is how fast or how slowly one presents his/her speech. It is ideal to maintain a speed which people can clearly understand. When a debate is started, one should remember to start slowly, to reinforce the feeling of speaking at a measured pace to the audience. If a person speaks too fast or too slow then one could write ‘SLOW DOWN’ or ‘BE FAST’ on their palm cards which reminds them to speak at the required pace. This can be a useful technique, as long as one doesn’t read those words out

Volume is a significant component of vocal presentation. Perhaps the most important element of volume is that your volume should be appropriate for the context of your speech. For example, if you are speaking to a large crowd in a big hall, it is important to project your voice loudly; if you are addressing a small group in a classroom, it is far more effective to adopt a conversational tone

Variation

It is important to vary your style of presentation throughout. Whether or not variety is indeed the spice of life, it can certainly help your manner mark!

WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

         The empowerment of women is a very important matter. There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. The very concept of women empowerment shows that society as such has given women, who nearly comprise fifty percent of the population a raw deal; they themselves have to come forward to fight for their rightful place in society and prevent their exploitation in every field.

Empowerment by itself may not put women on an equal footing with men. The greatest need of the hour is the change of social attitude towards women.

So finally we can conclude that although we are saying it aloud, that we are keeping women on an equal platform as men, things are yet to change. Saying something is very easy but implementing it requires courage. There are very few of us who are ready to take one more step and put in some extra effort. The fact remains, there are very few of us who actually care.

RG The Physicist – misses Nobel Prize by a whisker !

After reading the newspaper right now, I felt why did Higgs get the Nobel for Physics, our very own RG should have got it for his Great ‘Weird’ Theories on Escape Velocity for social upliftment of Dalits. This guy’s an amazing character sometime he wants to tear papers and throw them away(and lose his own seat in polls too), sometimes talk about Physics !

Prof. RG was at his best yesterday when he was busy explaining the ‘curious’ Dalit Indian audience about ‘Escape Velocity’. I mean amazing, the person barely gets a meal and you are giving me Physics lessons ! Humko de do, hum prize wise le aayenge ! (Give us a lesson, we shall bring some prize  )

Prof. RG on Escape Velocity ! Courtesy: IndiaToday

RG explained: “Aeronautics mein ek escape velocity ka concept hota hai. Escape velocity matlab agar aap ne dharti se space mein jana hai agar aap hamari dharti pe hai to 11.2 km per second aap ki velocity honi padegi.”

RG explained the concept further; “Agar koi Jupiter pe khada hai aur Jupiter ki kheech se nikalna ho to use 60 km/sec ki acceleration chahiye.“

The ultimate quote is here : “Yahan Hindustan mein hamara jaat ka concept hai. Iss mein bhi escape velocity hoti hai. Dalit community ko is dharti pe Jupiter ki escape velocity chahiye.“ (In India we have caste. Dalits need Jupiter’s escape velocity on Earth).

Well, this guy seriously needs some EXTRA mentoring. I can’t imagine the *future* Congress President or the Prime Minister to be such Nobel professor ! 

Maybe if Professor taught young students about Escape Velocity the benefit would have been large rather than him talking about tearing posters !

But on the other hand I salute this guy, wonder from where he gets such amazing concepts ! He should patent his speeches !! OR maybe I should get hold of his script writer 

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SHOCKING - MARS 1

The “Mars One” project by NASA which aims to colonize Mars beginning in 2022 has reportedly revealed that more than 1, 00,000 people are eager to join the project in a bid to visit the red planet but do not want to come back.

According to the CNN, people have applied for a one-way trip to the planet hoping to be chosen to spend the rest of their lives on the unchartered territory.

Mars One CEO and co-founder, Bas Lansdorp said that there are a large number of people who are working on their profiles for the mission.

The 6 billion dollar project will be media and sponsors funded and the application fee for people who want to explore the mission will be based on the gross domestic product per capita of each nation.

The report said that the multicontinental group of 40 astronauts is set to leave for Mars in September 2022, landing in April 2023 and another group of four will be deployed two years later and none of them will return Earth.

The astronauts will undergo strict training for eight years in a secluded location.

The mission to colonise the planet carries with itself a set of health risks; including cancer because of the level of radiation astronauts are exposed to which ultimately limits the number of days on the planet to a maximum of 500 days.

NASA's deputy director of advanced exploration systems, Chris Moore said that engineers could try to limit travelers' exposures by designing a spacecraft in such a way that it provides more protection but as the risks of space travel in general are very high; the risk of radiation is not the biggest concern to them, the report added.